How can telemetry data in MEF SD-WAN be accessed?

• A. Only via CLI on devices.
• B. Via APIs and dashboards.
• C. Telemetry is not collected.
• D. Only email reports.

Answer: (B)

Telemetry data in MEF SD-WAN is designed to be consumed both by automated systems and by operators through interfaces that support continuous monitoring and integration. Access via APIs provides structured, machine-readable data that can be pulled or streamed to external monitoring tools, alerting systems, and analytics pipelines. This makes it possible to automate comparisons, trigger responses, and build custom dashboards or reports.

Dashboards complement this by offering real-time and historical visualizations of performance, health, and usage metrics. They let you see latency, jitter, packet loss, link utilization, device status, and topology views at a glance, which is essential for quick troubleshooting and capacity planning.

Other options aren’t suitable because a CLI on devices isn’t scalable for ongoing telemetry across a distributed network, telemetry data is indeed collected, and email reports don’t provide direct access to live or historical telemetry data—they’re only notifications.